Improvement in medicated-bath apparatus



"JHN" DAVENPORT.

`Improverrmrlin Mdircated Bath Appra'tus.l

No 126 878 Patented May 21,1 3Z.2.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN DAVENPORT, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN MEDlCATED-BATH APPARATUS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 126,87 8, dated May 21,1872.

To all'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN DAVENPORT, o Manayunk, city of Philadelphia,State of Pennsylvania, have invented an Improved Apparatus that I styleImproved Medicated Bath, and I do hereby declare the following to be anexact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon making a part ofthis specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and combinationof the oval receiver, with its upright perforated copper cylinders, andperforated square chamber at top. The object of this apparatus is tocontain hotair or vapor, supplied through an opening in the side of thechamber or receiver, and con-4 duct the vapor through the apertures ofthe upright copper cylinders and to be brought in contact with theperson to be operated upon while seated in a sweat-box or chamber, so asto remove disease from the patient. By my apparatus I control the hotair or vapor in so ne and delicate a manner that it can be applied tothe most sensitive parts of the human organization, such as the eye,ear, nose, mouth, or throat. The small square box or chamber at top isfor the purpose of holding any medicated solution, the vapor of whichpasses out through the apertures along the sides near the top, and thepatient thus receives amedicated bath at the' same time that he isreceiving a hot-air or vapor bath. rIhe apparatus is intended to beplaced under the seat or upon the floor of the sweat-box.

A represents the chamber or receiver, de-

signed to contain the hot air or vapor, and it is made of sheet metal,of an oval form, and air or steam tight. 'lhe hot air is suppliedthrough the tube B, and forced upward through the upright tubes C' O,that are perforated and fastened to the bottom of the chamber A, andextend through the top, so as to effectually lspread the hot air orvapor in fine sprays Wherever required to be applied. The tubes orcylinders C U are made of copper, that they may retain the heat betterthan other sheet metal. The stop-cock D is for the purpose of removingany condensed vapor that might collect iu the chamber A. The smallsquare chamber E at top is not air-tight, but perforated along its sidesnear to the top to eject the evaporation of the medicated solution,while the hot airor vapor in the larger chamber A causes heat enough tobe communica'- ted to the small chamber, that the solution passes offits vapor freely and 'sufficiently for all the purposes desired.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is

The oval receiver A, containing the hot air vor vapor, with its uprightperforated copper y cylinders `O O, and perforated square chamber E onthe top, to contain anyr medicated solution, when combined, constructed,and operating as herein described, and for the purposes set forth. JOHNDAVENPORT.

Witnesses:

J As. D. WILSON, SAM. H. BITCH.

